The Occupation’s Fake Cells: Traps Targeting Resistance Members in the Occupied West Bank

Information security specialist Saed Hassunah said technology is not only a surveillance tool for the occupation’s intelligence services, but also a space for constructing fake cells. These serve purposes including promoting claimed security successes and reassuring the Israeli public. Before contacting someone, intelligence services study posts to form an initial picture of political engagement, then examine the person’s real and virtual surroundings through social engineering techniques.